Corn-receiver.



PATENTED JULY 7, 1903.

N. EDWARDS. CORN RECEIVER.

APPLICATION FILED 001.3, 1902.

Ifo MODEL y No. 732,838.

Patented Juiy 7", 1903.

"PATENT OFFICE.

" ATHANIEL EDWARDS, OFWASHINGTON COURT-HOUSE, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO NORMAN SMITH, OF

T0 @ZZ whom it may concern:

WASHINGTON COURT-HOUSE, OHIO.

CORN-RECEIVER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 732,838, dated July 7, 1903. Application filed Qctober 3, 1902. Serial No. 1251840. (No model.)

y at the desired elevation. Over the frame thus Be it known that I, NATHANIEL EDWARDS, formed there is stretched a fabric sheet 10, the Y a citizen of the United States, residing at edges of which are passed around the sides 55 Washington Court-House, in the county of of the frame and are sewed or otherwise se- Fayette, State of Ohio, have invented certain cured, said fabric being stretched to give new and useful Improvements Vin Oorn-Reproper tension thereto. Against the under y ceivers; and I do herebydeclare the followside of the fabric sheet and diagonally there- `ing to be a full, clear, and exact description of are secured strips 11 of fabric, which serve 6o p of the invention, such as will enable others to reinforce the fabric 10 and prevent ex- 'Io skilled in the art to which it appertains to cessive sagging thereof. The ends of the .make and use the same. .i g reinforcing-strips 11 are continued beyond y This invention relates to receivers for the corners of the sheet'lO and are doubled grains, although it may be used to receive upon themselves and sewed to form hems 65 vegetables and other growths as they are harthrough which are passed loops 12 of rope or I5 vested; and it has for its object'to provide a other suitable material, which form handles f cheap,simple,and efficient construction which by means of which the receiver may be raised will be more rigid than that shown in my forto dump its load into and maybe carried from "mer patent, No. 219,080, granted to me Sepplace to place. 7o y tember2, 1879, and which may be folded y In the use of the receiverit maybe laid flat zo readily to occupyasmall campass and which upon the ground, or the legs may be swung f `maybe easily handled. downwardly to project at right angles to the Other objects and advantages of the inveuframe and may be then pressed or driven tion relate to details of structure and will b'e into the ground, and the fabric sheet will be 75 2 `understood from thefollowing description. held free from the ground. After the desired In the drawings forming a portion of -this quantity of corn or other growths has been specification, and in which like numerals of placedin the receiver the latter may be `raised l reference indicate similar parts in the several and dumped into a Wagon, and while the views, Figure 1 is a top plan View of a rewagon is unloading at the barn or other place 8o p ceiver embodyingvthe present invention, the of storage the receiverl may be receiving a fabric at one'corner being broken away to second load.

illustrate the pivotal mounting of the leg. To facilitate folding of the receiver into Fig. 2 is a section on line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig.- small compass, the bars or members forming 3 is an elevation showing the hinge which two opposite sides of the frame are formed of 85 connects the sections of one side of the frame two sections hinged together, as illustrated of the receiver. f in Fig. 2, so that the frame and fabric 10 4Referring now to the drawings, the present may be folded to occupy one-halt' of its nor- `receiver comprises four legs or supports 5, mal space. y

each in the form of a channel-iron and com- In practice modifications of thespecitic con- 9o prisinga web portion and spacedV members 6, struction shown may be made, and any suit- 1 g connected thereby, and `which legs support. able materials and proportions may be used y the frame of the receiver.` The frame of the for the various parts without departing from `receiver consists of sections 7 of .ironor steel the spirit of the invention. in the form ofbars, the ends of which are It will be noted that one member of the 95 turned at angles, as shown at 8, and are pivhinge hasa stop against which the other memotallyengaged in perforations in-the upper ber lies to permit of folding of the sections end portions of the members 6 of the legs, so of the frame from a common plane in one dithat there is formed a rectangular frame, the rection. Thus the frame is kept rigid when y legs being free for pivotal movement, so that in use. roo J 1 they `may be swung inwardly toward the cen- What is claimed is* ter of the frame. The lower ends of the legs 1. A device for loading grain and similar p are pointed, sothat they maybe easilypressed articlesinto wagons and bins, consisting of or driven into the ground to support the frame -a frame, a fabric stretched upon the frame,

and reinforcing-strips secured diagonally of the under side of the fabric and having handles connected to their ends. l

2. A deviceo" the class described comprising a frame having a fabric stretched thereon, said frame being rigid andA having legs pivoted to its corners to fold against the fabric or to depend at right angles thereto, re-r inforci ng-strps secured diagonally of the under face of the fabric, and handles secured to the reinforcing-strips.

3. A device of the class described comprising a frame including two sections hinged to- NATHANIEL EDWARDS.

Witnesses FRANCES STOKER, ROBERT HOWAT. 

